FamilyTreeDNA announces updates and new features

From FamilyTreeDNA (www.familytreedna.com), via email:

We are excited to announce the release of several updates to the platform and to your reports! These improvements are just the beginning of a continued effort to help you discover more about yourself and your ancestry.

Thanks for allowing us to join you on your journey of discovery!

Family Finder Updates
The new Family Finder Matches page includes improvements to our matching algorithm, predicted relationship ranges, and X-chromosome matching. The new design allows you to better navigate your matches, and we’ve added more options for sorting, filtering, and searching your match list, including ways to find matches with shared Family Trees.
Further details at https://blog.familytreedna.com/updates-to-family-finder-matching-and-chromosome-painter/

Y-DNA Updates
The new Y-DNA Matches page provides the ability to easily view a breakdown of the number of matches per marker level as well as your matches’ earliest known paternal ancestor’s countries of origin. The new design allows you to better navigate your match list and includes more ways to sort, filter, and search your matches.
Further details at https://blog.familytreedna.com/improvements-to-the-y-dna-matches-page/

New Help Center
We’ve released a brand new learning center that will be referred to as the Help Center. We’ve also added links throughout the platform and your reports that will take you directly to Help Center pages that are specific to the report or page you are viewing. The goal of the new Help Center is to help you find answers to your questions faster. The full migration of the Learning Center to the new Help Center will complete in the 3rd quarter of the year.
Further details at https://blog.familytreedna.com/the-new-familytreedna-help-center/

Website Performance & Usability
We’ve improved match load times and have also made big improvements to the website’s usability. These usability updates include tons of new tooltips throughout the platform and direct links to specific Help Center topics throughout the platform.

New Feature Coming Soon — Chromosome Painter
Later in July, we’ll be releasing the new Chromosome Painter feature for Family Finder!  The Chromosome Painter is another way to explore your myOrigins results. It paints segments of your genome with colors that represent the populations in your results. The Chromosome Painter goes beyond telling you your percentages by revealing from where each DNA segment in your ancestry originates. 

Chris

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